2025-08-15- KSR - Hour 2

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Speaker 3: Quarterback.

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Speaker 4: It is Kentucky Sports Radio here live at Kentucky State Fair. First of all, we're Kentucky fans in Louisville. We can do better than that.

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Speaker 3: Welcome back to Kentucky Sports Radio. Heirline. There we go.

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Speaker 4: We gotta make sure card fans knows who owns this city.

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Speaker 3: Here.

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Speaker 4: Kentucky Association Health plans free flu shots throughout the State Fair and the Kroger gift cards are throughout the State Fair.

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Speaker 3: It was it was not just tast's not just doing this.

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Speaker 4: You can come get your flu shot, get a gift card by groceries.

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Speaker 3: Uh, they're they're they're they're expensive.

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Speaker 4: I hear vegetables are going do you see if vegetables going up?

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Speaker 3: So that's why you should eat them.

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Speaker 4: But nevertheless, you can still come and get your flu shot and it'll all be all be good.

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Speaker 3: There's a lot of controversy here right now, Drew.

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Speaker 4: Because Shannon the Dude just tweeted a picture of Billy and Billy is clearly very angry the pre show host. I saw somebody earlier had a KSR pre show host KSR.

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Speaker 3: Pre show shirt.

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Speaker 4: Save that one that could become because Billy is very mad, and Shannon Shannon tweeted out a picture. Well, I'll let everybody look at it on Twitter. Why did you tweet that?

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Speaker 5: Do you want me to delete it? He's like he won't to look at me. He won't even look at you right now.

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Speaker 3: If you really want me to and it's too late.

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Speaker 6: I mean, well, no, I can delete it. But you act like nobody was turning his back to me right now. I act like nobody could have already seen, like somebody can already saved it. It's not going anywhere, Like what's a town?

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Speaker 5: He had a pacifier in his mouth. I could not resist the urge to take a picture of a grown man with a binky in his mouth.

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Speaker 4: I'm just saying there might be some pre show host animosity going for the future.

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Speaker 7: I worry about the pre show sometimes, and sometimes they're they're bickering on there like a married couple.

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Speaker 3: Now Billy won't even look his direction. I accidentally hit retweet. I didn't mean to.

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Speaker 8: Oh no, oh no.

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Speaker 4: Just for the record, people sometimes think I'm mean to Ryan those who are a lot.

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Speaker 3: Meaner to each other.

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Speaker 4: Then right, I'm gonna give you a couple more State Fair events real quick. Tonight at five o'clock, there's the Granny Contest.

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Speaker 8: Granny Contest, Just bring your granny.

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Speaker 3: I think, is it like a sexy granny contest?

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Speaker 8: Hope?

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Speaker 3: So is it? Wait a minute, you're you're the granny right, that's Grandma Sarah speaking a sexy granny. Granny.

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Speaker 5: Come on, stick around, you might win a gold medal today before you leave.

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Speaker 4: I don't know what the granny contest is, Shannon, but whatever it is, good luck to all of the grannies that are in it.

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Speaker 8: I might still be here. I'll let you know. I'll be your reporter.

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Speaker 3: Then.

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Speaker 4: Also competing against the granny contest is animal cracker conspiracybody's going.

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Speaker 8: The granny contest that's going on.

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Speaker 3: But what do we think of animal cracker?

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Speaker 7: Like a good conspiracy? Though I don't know what's going on with animal crackers. I might check that one out after I see the granny competition. There's all here called most Wanted? Do they just like bring all the most wanted together and have them son in.

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Speaker 8: Probably if you're out here roaming around.

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Speaker 4: That's they're trying to trick them. If you're one of the most wanted people, they tell you to come and then.

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Speaker 3: They get you a free gift card.

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Speaker 4: Then you're caught and they they you know, it's a very clear way to solve it. One person writes, Matt, you and the other guys are casuals.

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Speaker 3: I don't. That's a big thing. People call each other casuals. They are casuals.

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Speaker 4: True, UK fans would give money to BBU at n U nine and so that UK wins.

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Speaker 8: That does not mean you're going to win.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, So the thing about here's why you have to give perk. So let me give you an example. This is what we've talked about this before. But it's called the tragedy of the commons. So if I were to go to all of you and say, is it worth it to you to pay five dollars so that there's a nice park in your town, almost everybody's gonna say yes. Almost everybody's gonna say, you know what, I'd like a nice park in my town.

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Speaker 3: Five dollars is fine. However, if you say, here's a number, here's a link to click.

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Speaker 4: Click this link and give us five dollars for the park, A lot of people won't do it because they'll think, well, somebody else will do it, right, Like I don't need to do it. Somebody else will do it. It's the tragedy of the commons. It's also like why you have to hire people.

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Speaker 3: To clean parks.

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Speaker 4: Everybody wants clean parks, but nobody wants to sit there and actually.

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Speaker 3: Pick up the trash.

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Speaker 4: Right, So you have taxes and you have other things that force people to give the five dollars because otherwise they wouldn't do it.

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Speaker 3: What worries me about things?

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Speaker 4: And this was true of Club Blue too, what worries you is I think everybody if I were to say to you, Shandon, is it worth one hundred dollars to you for Kentucky to be good at sports?

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Speaker 3: I think we'd all say yes.

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Speaker 4: But that's different than clicking the button right to give one hundred dollars. So the way you click get people to click the button the one hundred dollars is to give them something, give them something immediate, whatever it is that makes them want to click the button. And so the question is not whether or not it's worth one hundred dollars or six hundred dollars or whatever. The question is can you give enough stuff to make me click the button to make this happen?

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Speaker 3: And that's what I think these things have.

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Speaker 5: To work, and too, I mean, if there was a magic wand and that said, you can wave this wand and you give a hundred dollars and it will guarantee Kentucky will be competitive and everybody I would do it. But there's no guarantee in that either, so it doesn't necessarily one doesn't necessarily equal the other.

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Speaker 4: So I think that's the great that's I mean, think about taxes. Everybody wants to have a government, everybody wants to have a police force. Everybody will have all this at the same time. If the IRS doesn't exist, nobody would pay their taxes because you just wouldn't want to, Like, you'd just be like, well, if I can get away with it, then it'll be fine.

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Speaker 3: So I do I do wonder if it's enough.

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Speaker 4: By the way, one of the things you get to vote on, I'm told is you get to your There'll be one game during the year where the people in BBU and the U nine and get to vote on what uniforms the players.

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Speaker 8: Wait, that's kind of cool. I like that.

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Speaker 3: It's kind of cool.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, I think that the seorts would probably be the one that's gonna win.

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Speaker 7: Do they give us options or do we literally get to just vote for whatever we think it's like you should wear that day.

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Speaker 3: That would be a lot of fun. Yeah, if they would really open it.

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Speaker 7: Up like like an overalls like a suggestion box, you can add your own overalls. You're onto something with, you know, five dollars coming out take care of the part. Why don't we just take five dollars out of everyone's paycheck. That's just Kentucky games.

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Speaker 3: Well just I mean, that's not gonna happen.

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Speaker 4: But if you think about it, like taxes are this, like they take it out now so that in theory, things we all share can get taken care of now.

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Speaker 3: Of course a lot of people think we waste the money. I get all that, but that's what taxes are.

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Speaker 4: So but there's really not a BB in tax so you have to voluntarily do it.

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Speaker 3: I think it's interesting though, if.

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Speaker 4: The government were to charge everybody twenty five dollars for Kentucky to have a final four competitive roster and take it out of your checks.

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Speaker 3: I probably wouldn't support that, to be honest with you.

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Speaker 8: But if you live in Loisoll though, they take.

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Speaker 5: It out and they know they can't take my money for a little I'm just saying, like I'll live you know, close to Loisoll.

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Speaker 8: What if they were to take it out and give it to them instead?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, they can't. Well, you know, like when you go to UK, you would know this better than I do, Drew.

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Speaker 4: Don't they have like student activities fees or something?

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Speaker 3: Don't they they charge you?

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Speaker 8: Sure?

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Speaker 3: I think you're thinking highly of my UK experience there. Well you did it. You did the first year three times, so I felt like you because I wasn't going to many student activities.

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Speaker 8: I'm already paying school taxes for kids I don't have, so.

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Speaker 4: Very good so do I for kids? I'll probably have Who's up next?

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Speaker 3: Kyle is up next? Kyle? Go ahead, Kyle?

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Speaker 9: Hey fellas, Matt, I just want to say you at least have one Reds fan that likes all the Reds talk and uh, well thank you. I just want oh, no problem, uh Drew, Drew and Shannon, thank you to your brave for getting us this close. And Matt, you on to the UK bath. You gotta try to get Ellie to come to Kentucky basketball game to do the why one time, and that's all I got.

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Speaker 3: I would love that. I would love that.

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Speaker 4: I would love to have Ellie as the as the Why do you think I left people with Reperena would even know who he is?

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Speaker 3: Though?

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Speaker 4: Like, what percentage of Repperena do you think would know who Ellie dela Cruise is.

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Speaker 5: Well, they always introduced the person, but you're saying without the introduction, no, no, no, I mean.

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Speaker 4: If they said Ellie de la Cruz Radz, you think how many people be like, oh, yeah, I've heard of that guy.

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Speaker 5: I think more than what you think, so so yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 3: Go about half worth would do well.

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Speaker 4: First of all, if you listen to this show, you would know, right, so that there you go.

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Speaker 3: If you're a Reds fan you would know.

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Speaker 8: And if you're a casual baseball fan you know who that is.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, so maybe there'd be more more than you think. A five nine, two eighty eighty seven.

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Speaker 3: Who's next? Sean from Austin is next show? Sean from Austin, go ahead, shot.

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Speaker 10: Hey guys, great show. I wish I could be there to smell the fair.

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Speaker 11: When I was a kid, I always had to get the hand squeezed lemonade and a deep fried Oreo, And I was wondering, like, what are.

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Speaker 10: Some crazy fair food you can only get like at the fair.

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Speaker 3: And we guys talk.

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Speaker 4: We talked earlier about the Cheetos corn dog corn dogs.

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Speaker 7: They're outside. I'll show you in the midway. He's right about those lemon shakeups. It's sugar, lemon water. It shouldn't be that hard to make. But there's something about how they make him at the fair. I don't know if they put cracking them too much sugar. I don't know what it is they crack the fair limit.

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Speaker 4: Shakeups are good, yeah, probably, Yeah, go ahead.

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Speaker 10: And George just Stanzas said about the kid that was twelve years old about the red You know, it's not a lie.

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Speaker 3: If you believe it, that's true. That's true. Although it was a lie.

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Speaker 4: He went to Valparaiso Lloyd mcclennon and was not drafted until he's twenty one, which maybe that guy's dyslexic and he just had the numbers flipped again. He saw twenty one and he was actually twenty CAUSI yes, appreciate the call a couple open lines. If I'm nine, twenty two eighty seven. We're all friends here, so like you guys know what we do, et cetera.

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Speaker 3: So I'm gonna give you some a little behind the scenes.

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Speaker 4: So the NFL show, which is probably gonna be announced a week from Monday, I think, uh, for me and Drew, we've been we did something that is like against my nature, which is we did a test show. We did like a full show that no one will ever hear, because I thought we needed to like practice, and we have all these cameras and Billy and Mario and Nathan have been setting up cameras, we have lights. It actually like we're almost getting professional. I mean not yet, but we're.

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Speaker 7: There's Mario's like hitting buttons on the Yeah, Mario's got like one of these editing things where you hit buttons and you go camera one, camera two, camera three.

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Speaker 3: So we did a practice show.

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Speaker 4: And you know, Drew and I've been doing shows together for fifteen years, so.

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Speaker 3: I kind of know how we vibe.

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Speaker 4: And I would say when it was over, I was thinking, you know, that was probably like a B minus Matt and Drew show, maybe a C plus Matt and Drew show. I'm not worried about it, but I was like, you know, we can do better. So we so, Billy, you don't even know this yet. Billy sent it off to the NFL people and I was a little nervous about sending it shinning because I was like, we can do better than that. They said the content was quote excellent and through.

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Speaker 8: The roof, woul imagine on your game.

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Speaker 4: Honestly, that wasn't even very good, Like we can do better than that. Uh So, Drew, I that was encouraged.

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Speaker 7: Actually, Billy share with that yesterday even used the word outstanding also in there. I'm with you. You know, I had fun, but it was our first one. We're still figuring out the format. It was truly just getting some shots up. So if they liked our our dress rehearsal, I'm looking forward to when that wasn't even real is it possible?

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Speaker 5: Expectations were so low that they were like, you know what.

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Speaker 4: So you will hear if you listen to ks R or other iHeart podcasts, you're gonna start to hear the promos on it. Those promos come from the test show that Drew and I just did, and uh so, I mean, I'm I'm not gonna.

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Speaker 3: Lie to you. I'm nervous about it.

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Speaker 4: I realized doing that test show, I don't know enough about this. On esp On ESPN, I can just go to the phones or make fun of my Ron, like I can just do something like that. This is you know, when you're trying to break down like a preseason game.

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Speaker 3: Shit, and I may have to do I've gotta do a little bit more work.

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Speaker 5: We got one tonight, I and you want to break down that preseason game for.

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Speaker 3: I don't want to watch it.

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Speaker 4: I have no interest in it, but I'm probably gonna have to turn it on because uh, you know that's the way it goes.

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Speaker 5: That sounds like at least you guys are having fun and you know it's cover zero, so you're acknowledging you don't know anything.

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Speaker 8: So you just play up that and you'll be fine.

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Speaker 3: A big shout out Tomorrio and Billy and Nathan. That works. Back there, they are working really hard, like they like.

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Speaker 3: This is KS working back.

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Speaker 4: It is Kentucky Sports Radio AF. I'm nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven. Text machine is seven two seven seventy four five two five four Here at Kentucky State Fair with Kentucky Association of Health Plans, you can get your free flu shot along and if you do, you can also get a Kroger gift card.

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Speaker 3: We've got great crowd here.

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Speaker 4: Folks knew they didn't have chairs, still came out and we very much appreciate them.

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Speaker 3: One person rights.

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Speaker 4: Matt, you are a stinking liberal. I hope you see it at the fair. There are no Kamala Harris flags.

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Speaker 3: No, they're not. You're exactly right about that. This is uh, this is.

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Speaker 8: I haven't seen one yet.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, well I've been here a number of years. I've never seen one. This is like if you were gonna pick. I'm not saying everybody, but if you're gonna pick. In terms of merchandise, this is definitely a maga merchandise place. There's no doubt about that. I try on a lot of the stuff. I probably will afterwards.

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Speaker 3: Where did you get your Kama flag? Then here it myself. I actually sold it. It was good.

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Speaker 5: I saw that they have many places where you can get pocket knives over there if you want to get you know, your buddy, Yeah, a new pocket knife for your friend.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, there's several places over there where you can get those.

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Speaker 5: I don't know what I would use it for though, No getting up for you for your friend one.

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Speaker 8: You know you had to leave it, true, he'd lose it.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, maybe that's what you know, today's birthday.

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Speaker 8: There you go, that's a great birthday.

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Speaker 3: Get him, yeah, tell him it's his birthday. I'm gonna take him a new point. There you go.

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Speaker 8: That is perfect. There's something for everybody at the state fair.

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Speaker 3: That's exactly right. A year ago, I was with you back there and you bought like some sauce, so to make it home? Did you make it at home?

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Speaker 4: I think I left in my car, but uh, but it probably so I can.

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Speaker 3: I can have it.

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Speaker 4: I think sauce is good warm, so it's okay. Yeah, been frozen, good stuff. Yeah, eightf I'm nine twenty two.

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Speaker 3: A sem.

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Speaker 4: Let's talk about our rivals, some of the stuff they're doing. We'll start with the Kansas. Kansas alumnus gave three hundred million dollars to Kansas to use for nil over the course of the next twenty years. He basically said, I got twenty years left on earth. I want us to be good at sports. Here's three hundred million dollars. What do you think about that?

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Speaker 5: I bet everybody needs a friend like that. Just give you three hundred million dollars. There's a lot of pressure on you, though, if you're a program like Kansas. I think if you get that kind of money and you don't win a championship, people want to know why.

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Speaker 4: Well no, I mean it's it's a blessing. But if you're like, first of all, this guy says he only has twenty years to live. Yeah, and I don't know how much he's worth, but three hundred million dollars gotta be a big chunk of it. I mean, I unless he's Jeff Bezos.

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Speaker 8: I was wondering he's this one Buffett that's a first of all.

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Speaker 3: Also, if I'm his kids, I'm like, hello, Yeah, you.

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Speaker 8: Love Kansas basketball more than me.

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Speaker 3: Or maybe he's just like me and he doesn't have it.

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Speaker 4: I mean, if I had three hundred million dollars, I don't know if I through, I wouldn't give it all the UK. But I could see myself going, let's get a good five year run here, you know so.

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Speaker 3: But it is a lot of pressure for Kansas, isn't it. Yeah?

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Speaker 7: Especially with this, I mean, you got you got a hard deadline with this guy.

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Speaker 3: Might even try freezing him.

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Speaker 8: I don't know how that works. Yeah, gotta win before he dies.

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Speaker 7: This is something. When this came up, the change in the college landscape. And it happened at a big school like Kansas, but this could happen anywhere where someone just on their way out, drops an enormous bag.

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Speaker 3: And says, go crazy, go see what you can win. Yeah, give me.

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Speaker 4: I think one of the interesting things to see is like, we don't think about this, but let me give you a practical thing that teams are gonna have to deal with.

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Speaker 3: Let's say you're a team and you have like a big donor, and.

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Speaker 4: There are probably twenty schools around college sports that have one person that gives most of their money. All right, Let's say a person dies, Okay, then their spouse or their kids are gonna decide whether to keep this going. And chances are a lot of times they're gonna be like nah, you know. And so I do think all of a sudden, you got like a lot of pressure on.

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Speaker 3: You've been to the doctor, man, yeah, going, yeah, going again.

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Speaker 5: I know Bill self just had a heart attack. He doesn't need this extra pressure.

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Speaker 4: But I mean there is a sense of can we go ahead and get this in ride? Yeah, Shan is exactly I do think. There's you know, you got individuals now that have a lot of power over.

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Speaker 7: Can you take out an insurance policy on your biggest donor.

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Speaker 8: That's a good question.

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Speaker 4: Well, I do like the idea. I got twenty years left on this. I want a Kansas, he said. Kansas has really not had a great football team since I've been here. It's time for me to get one before I die. So we'll see if it works out. We need some of those.

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Speaker 8: You can't pay anybody to live in Kansas. There's no way. I don't think for millions is gonna do anything.

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Speaker 7: If you're a school that has these big donors and they have kids, you have to recruit them, like, yeah, bring your kid to everything. But whatever suite your kid wants, wherever your kid, whatever they need. I want to make sure I'm in with them for the future.

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Speaker 4: Tennessee, uh re sign Tennessee flip from Nike to Adidas.

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Speaker 3: They just announced what their deal is.

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Speaker 4: It is sixteen million dollars excuse me, twenty million dollars a year. If you remember, we've talked about Adidas overpays Louisville and Tennessee and.

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Speaker 3: Those schools so that they will have it.

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Speaker 4: But in the process, they listed in the SEC what each school gets from like apparel deals from Nike Adidas. I was kind of surprised to see Kentucky's actually fourth. Now the only three schools ahead of Kentucky are Texas, Texas A and M and Tennessee. We actually get more in revenue than Alabama and Georgia, which surprised me. Now that may just be that their deals haven't come up again and the next time it'll be more.

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Speaker 3: But were you surprised by that? Yeah, for right now, I'll take that.

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Speaker 7: I mean, that's a huge deal for Tennessee, and they were a Denna's school, it seemed like forever until fairly recently. I always had them as an Adida school in mind. So they're just going back to those roots. But you can to now they got a nice payday to go back and do that.

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Speaker 4: And then finally, Shannon, Oklahoma trying to figure out ways to raise money, is going to sell to the fans the ability to have a day. They can buy a day in the Oklahoma media press box. You can pay ten to ten to fifteen thousand dollars and you can sit in the press box for a game.

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Speaker 5: Well, some of us have sat there for free with our media passes, and I can tell you it's a lot more fun out there with all the fans than it is in that sterile environment which is the media press box, where you can't cheer.

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Speaker 8: It's quiet, it's not where I would want to watch a game. So I feel no way I woul want to pay that kind of money to go there.

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Speaker 4: If all the fundraisers i've heard drew this is the worst one. Yes, if you pay ten thousand dollars to sit next to Rob Bromley and John Clay, no offense to Rob Bromley and John Clay and eat like stale barbecue, I feel like that's probably a bad decision.

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Speaker 3: I mean, they can have my spot. I'll saw it.

00:22:37
Speaker 7: There is free coffee now, I think it was made the Saturday before, but you have that. The barbecue is good, also made the Saturday before you left over there. Don't get to ask a question. I mean, no, no, I don't know. I can't imagine paying to be in the press box. I can't think of anyone.

00:22:54
Speaker 3: Let me just see me. You got like a kid that wants to throw for all you folks here.

00:22:59
Speaker 4: If you were to just like go as my intern to the press box, you would have a really good time.

00:23:05
Speaker 3: You would think it's really cool, you would think it's interesting.

00:23:08
Speaker 4: But if you would pay ten thousand dollars to go into the press box, you'd.

00:23:14
Speaker 3: Be like, I need a refuge. Yeah, it would not. It is. It is cool, but it is not ten dollars.

00:23:21
Speaker 8: I was there for five minutes. I was ready to leave.

00:23:22
Speaker 3: Yeah, we'll take a break. Be right back. This is Kentucky Sports Radio live at the State Fair.

00:23:28
Speaker 4: Quarterback, It is Kentucky Sports Radio here live at the Kentucky State Fair. We are brought to you by Kentucky Association Health Plans. They are doing flu shots the Kentucky Office Highway Safety Safe Summer Driving tours.

00:23:42
Speaker 3: Here.

00:23:43
Speaker 4: My guy who's been listening since six years old as stayed right here in the front with his sports is awesome Ryan Lemon T shirt.

00:23:49
Speaker 3: You've been painting in that, haven't you.

00:23:51
Speaker 4: It looks like, yeah, that's all right, that's all right, don't worry about it.

00:23:55
Speaker 3: It looks great.

00:23:56
Speaker 4: What person writes, Matt, do not buy your friend a pocket knife? For people people who actually know about such things. It's like your mom buying you shoes, me shoes. What's wrong with your mom shoes? I think that's actually you can't buy another man of pocket knight.

00:24:10
Speaker 5: I think you can. I think that's a great manly gift to give somebody.

00:24:13
Speaker 4: I'm gonna go buy him a nice pocket knight for him to lose Druid the next time we go to a casino.

00:24:19
Speaker 3: I think it's a great idea.

00:24:20
Speaker 7: Walking around here after the show shopping is my favorite part of this trip every year.

00:24:23
Speaker 3: Yep.

00:24:24
Speaker 4: If I'm nine two eight oh, twenty two eighty seven, who's up next?

00:24:28
Speaker 3: Got Adam up next? Adam, go ahead at him.

00:24:34
Speaker 12: Some guys yesterday call her called in asking about three point shooting for next year's team, and I think you said you expected either an equal or lesser amount of volume. I'm kind of the other way. Now that you have Jalen Lowe who gets the rim along with o Way, I think that's going to open up more shots on the outside. Plus you have better offensive rebounding for kickbacks and things like that. So I'm kind of optimistic that if you're gonna have.

00:25:03
Speaker 4: Better offensive, you're gonna have to be really good to have better offensive rebound We we rebounded pretty well last year for especially as the season went on. Now your points valid, though about driving to the basket and kicking out. We may have more open looks, so Drew, we might shoot a higher percentage.

00:25:22
Speaker 3: I'd be surprised if we had a higher number, but maybe. I mean, it's.

00:25:25
Speaker 7: Plausible and driving a kicking back out is one of the things Low does best. I think maybe even Pat Kelsey, one of the coaches last year, in the postgame, raved about how he could just get to the rim with eyes in the back of his head. Next thing you know, you've got a wide open three pointers. So that's something teams really have to look out for him because that's the way he likes to go.

00:25:42
Speaker 5: Do we feel like this is gonna be a high scoring team like last year where you can score one hundred on somebody like just on any given night, kind of like that team last year?

00:25:51
Speaker 8: Do you think that?

00:25:52
Speaker 4: Because I think part of what made us be able to score one hundred is we had guys who could get super hot. Right, Yeah, so Kobe Braa, Like think oft that Florida game when we won in rupp Arena, Kobe Braa, Jackson Robinson, all those dudes got insanely hot. Let me put it like this, if Colin Chandler becomes a knockdown shooter, right, and if Aberdeen is getting a lot of minutes and his not and Jay, I mean, it's possible, but.

00:26:19
Speaker 3: I don't know that. I don't know.

00:26:22
Speaker 4: I just think this team is gonna be so different from last year. They're gonna be much improved defensively. I'm just not sure that they'll be better offensively. But you might still win more, Drew, because you're so much better defensively.

00:26:34
Speaker 7: Yeah, and Pope likes to go. And let's assume Low's healthy. Hopefully nothing anything like last year ever again, But if you have a point guard with this his pace and maybe they could play a lot faster. It kind of got stagnant when you had Perry out there still learning the ropes in the middle of SEC play. It was unfair for him, but it did slow it down a little more than popeles to go.

00:26:52
Speaker 4: I know I've said this a lot, and you're gonna hear me say it a lot more and it you're probably gonna get tired of it. To me, this team, it's just how good is Jalen Loganna be. If Jalen Low's good, we can win the national championship. If Jalen Low's not good or is not as good as he should be, then I think this team kind of reminds me a little bit of last year.

00:27:13
Speaker 3: It'll be up and down and up and down.

00:27:15
Speaker 4: But I think if Jen this team, it is all about Jalen Low.

00:27:19
Speaker 3: What Jalen Low does. I think Drew, that's what this team does.

00:27:23
Speaker 7: And you know, every summer there's a standout that doesn't really meet the expectations put them in the summer. But it's been exciting hearing what we've heard out of the small workouts they've had of Low on campus and being a leader and looking like he's ready to be that guy at a place that's, you know, a little notch up from Pittsburgh a year ago.

00:27:41
Speaker 8: That's the thing. I think there's a lot of potential there.

00:27:43
Speaker 5: But it's hard to compare his teammates that he was playing with at Pittsburgh to Kentucky this year.

00:27:47
Speaker 4: He had to take every shot and if you've listened to Mark Pope, he said it on this show and he said it on others. He he took like the worst shots in the country last year because he was in the bottom five percon centile of worst shots in the country. Because he had to because he was playing with dude, so start making him. So there's two ways to look at that. One, if he takes good shots, he'll be great. Two is is he capable of taking good shots? Those will be That'll really be the question for the year. Is he a guy who wants you to get him to take good shots is awesome? Or is he a guy who just is gonna end up still kind of ballhogging.

00:28:24
Speaker 7: We'll have to see in Pope's in offensive mind. He's a good coach and low has the pieces around him. He would almost have to be stubborn to come in and take bad shots at the raid he did a year ago with this team he'll be playing with now.

00:28:34
Speaker 4: But I will also know by the way, we don't have any choice but to play him in my opinion, So like good or bad, it's one of these things. We're gonna have to live with him because who's his backup? I mean, whoever. It'll be like when Jackson Robinson was a point guard. Whoever we have played back up point guard is not a point guard. So like he is, it's it's live or die with with Jay, and I'm comfortable with it.

00:29:01
Speaker 3: But that's just the truth. I think so too.

00:29:03
Speaker 7: It's the only spot that doesn't have a true backup. So if everyone on the roster, including Oway, might be the most important staying healthy, he is.

00:29:11
Speaker 3: The most important player.

00:29:12
Speaker 4: Otago Way might be the best player, but he is the most important player on the team.

00:29:17
Speaker 3: Is low. Who's next?

00:29:19
Speaker 8: Lucas is next.

00:29:21
Speaker 3: Lucas, Go ahead, Lucas.

00:29:25
Speaker 13: Hey.

00:29:25
Speaker 14: I just wanted to say, I'm headed to.

00:29:27
Speaker 4: See your cousin to night in Cleveland and oh it Cleveland.

00:29:35
Speaker 14: Yeah, he's playing tonight with Gavin Hatcock and Miranda Lambert. I'm headed there now.

00:29:39
Speaker 4: We're gonna go see it tonight and then, oh, it'll be a blast.

00:29:45
Speaker 3: I can't wait.

00:29:46
Speaker 14: The other thing I wanted to say real quick was last night I was playing NCAA football as Kentucky playing against Toledo was chief train him from Ohio State and the former cat that lays for US.

00:29:59
Speaker 4: Yep, he pla for Toledo and he will be ready to go against US. I appreciate the call. I saw somebody do their early picks of the year for college football. They had Kentucky over Toledo because they thought Toledo was getting too much respect.

00:30:17
Speaker 5: Shannon well, I feel like we've been hearing a lot about Toledo in the offseason, but I feel like that's probably just people maybe getting their hopes up, building it up, building up Toledo a little bit more than what they should.

00:30:29
Speaker 8: And I think Kentucky wins.

00:30:30
Speaker 4: Well week one of the better win that Week one of the college football season. It has a couple of pretty good games, but it has a lot of games where you're kind of stretching and people want to have a big upset and you look at that Drew and you go, Okay, this is one that could happen, and I think it's probably led some people to put more into it than they should.

00:30:50
Speaker 7: Everybody on the national scene that's having to do their previews and their predictions, you kind of got to have an upset pick.

00:30:55
Speaker 3: Nobody just wants to watch you pick chalk all the time.

00:30:58
Speaker 7: And if you look at Week one, if we're being objective, Toledo at Kentucky's a pretty easy one to make his your upset pick. It's of all the games where you've got a power forward going against the team outside their conference, it's probably one with a smaller margin. So that's why a lot of people teams are high on Toledo right now because it's a it's a trendy and easy way to pick an up set.

00:31:15
Speaker 4: By the way, there's a I think there's a top twenty five game next week. Yeah already, I only people Iowa State Kansas State. I believe both teams are in the top twenty five. They play next Saturday, So you're gonna have a game one week from tomorrow, an actual college football game that counts.

00:31:32
Speaker 3: I believe it's in like Dublin. Iowa State and Kansas State.

00:31:36
Speaker 7: Are going to Dublin, Ireland to play, and I like in Week one, the number one team in the country is an underdog.

00:31:41
Speaker 3: Texas play Ohio State.

00:31:42
Speaker 7: Texas is number one in the TAK two or the Week two excuse me, but no, no, that's it's the second week.

00:31:47
Speaker 3: Yeah Week one football.

00:31:48
Speaker 7: Yeah, after Week zero, but first time ever the number one team in the country starts out as an underdog in a game.

00:31:54
Speaker 3: Yeah, are you gonna watch?

00:31:55
Speaker 4: You know that's gonna be Lee Corso's final final thing.

00:31:59
Speaker 3: Are you gonna watch?

00:32:00
Speaker 8: Absolutely?

00:32:00
Speaker 5: I love Lee Corso at absolute legend, and I'm glad that he gets to go out on Week one. You know, it gets to come back for one more season and do his final farewell.

00:32:09
Speaker 4: So that'll be very cool, very emotional and really really neat. They remember we play that game at so we played what we play it, dude, So we're gonna like it'll be coming right into uh to our first game.

00:32:23
Speaker 3: Who's up next?

00:32:24
Speaker 10: Jake is next?

00:32:26
Speaker 3: Jake? Go ahead, Jake?

00:32:30
Speaker 15: Yes, Matthew, how are you doing this morning?

00:32:33
Speaker 3: Good? Jake? What's up? Hey?

00:32:36
Speaker 15: Uh? I was wanting to catch a Cincinnati Reds game before their season, So we're hacking I catch it or or not.

00:32:45
Speaker 3: But they're on television. You can watch them. I can't watch.

00:32:49
Speaker 15: I can't watch the games because you know, you know I can't see so I can't watch the games anyway.

00:32:54
Speaker 4: So that dude, Yeah, well you can listen to them. I mean they're on you can you can listen to them. They're on sub seven hundred w l W. You can listen.

00:33:04
Speaker 3: They've got or that they're they're on every game.

00:33:09
Speaker 15: I because I used to listen to him. Listen to them. Uh when I was going to school in uh in Louisville, when I was a kid.

00:33:18
Speaker 3: I wanted to catch one. Well, you can. Where do you live again, Jake.

00:33:23
Speaker 15: I'm in wis Kentucky now, but I'm sure, I'm sure there's an affiliate out there.

00:33:32
Speaker 3: I'll tell you another thing you can do, Jake. There are you a Reds fan.

00:33:38
Speaker 15: That's what I'm trying to get back into it for because I was back when, back when?

00:33:44
Speaker 3: All right, Jake, I'll tell you what when when we get when? When? When?

00:33:47
Speaker 4: When you get find a way to send me an email and you I'll give you and you can uh, I'll give you a way to listen online.

00:33:54
Speaker 3: Okay, yes, sir? All right?

00:34:00
Speaker 8: Us disappointed?

00:34:04
Speaker 3: Am seven hundred w l W A M.

00:34:09
Speaker 15: Got you all right?

00:34:11
Speaker 3: Thank you, Jake. I don't I'm not sure what else he wanted me to.

00:34:15
Speaker 5: Do, hunting, get some free tickets or something. I'm not sure Jake would never do that.

00:34:21
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00:34:23
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00:34:28
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00:34:35
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00:34:39
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00:34:52
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00:35:00
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00:35:13
Speaker 3: We'll take a break. Be right back.

00:35:14
Speaker 4: It's Kentucky Sports Radio. Waterback, it is Kentucky Sports Radio. Here live, it's the Kentucky State Fair. Let's do a h Let's do a little chant for the folks. Drew lead the people here so the Louisville fans can hear us right too.

00:35:45
Speaker 3: That's exactly right, Dad.

00:35:46
Speaker 4: Lets him know that the Jefferson County is still big blue territory here at the Kentucky State Fair. If I'm nine two eight oh twenty two eighty seven, we are here live with the Kentucky Association of Health Plans. Remember, for the rest of the state Fair, got a flu shot right here at KAHP. You can get a Kroger gift card for doing it. People have been signing up getting getting their flu shot and ready to go. Drew will get one on the way out. Then we'll get the flu and everything will be good.

00:36:13
Speaker 3: I can't remember my last one.

00:36:14
Speaker 7: Has it heard if it's been a year, because I think you to up my extra safe.

00:36:17
Speaker 3: You're supposed to do it every year, because every year. I mean, if I did it this year already, I can't remember. I ain't you only do it once a year.

00:36:22
Speaker 7: I don't think you got a second one just in case I need the Kroger gift card good groceries after this. I don't know if you're supposed to do dude, I want maximum protection, but double meah so.

00:36:36
Speaker 4: If I'm twenty two eighty seven, if you didn't hear the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, So that's uh. Federal Department of Justice prosecutors announced uh well announced that they are in the middle of a gambling probe about college football involving players in college football and basketball, and it said it is focusing on southern schools. So generally speaking, what we've seen with these probes, Drew, is that they've been at smaller colleges. They've been at kind of small places where maybe there's not as much attention or not as much focus.

00:37:16
Speaker 3: But I have a feeling this. I mean, we've already seen.

00:37:19
Speaker 4: Like three or four professional athletes lose their career from it.

00:37:24
Speaker 3: Couple in baseball, couple of basketball.

00:37:27
Speaker 4: It's coming like there are gonna be guys in college sports get in trouble and what I would just say, You know, I like to gamble on sports as much as anybody, but if you're playing, I hope people realize. I hope kids realize, like it's not a joke. It's a federal crime. Like if you if you manipulate a score, or even if you manipulate how many points you score, it is a federal crime and you could end up in prison.

00:37:58
Speaker 3: And like right now are investigating me. It's a bit. I think this is a big deal.

00:38:03
Speaker 7: And they can spot it a lot easier than people realize. Yes, you might be surprised. There aren't many people betting ten thousand dollars on your little prop bet in your game or your small conference game. Anything that's out of the ordinary is a red flag and they will look into it. And if it's something like a player prop that looks wonky, they'll they'll fish that out pretty quickly.

00:38:21
Speaker 5: Or if you put it on your venmo that you're betting on games. I mean that you know that and say I did it.

00:38:26
Speaker 4: Henby Oklahoma on his venmo he was betting. Well, we don't know if he was betting on games, but it would allegedly it would be like one hundred dollars to Drew and then it would say USC UCLA.

00:38:39
Speaker 3: Now he says he.

00:38:40
Speaker 5: Was just kidd but if you look back, it was on that same day that those two teams were playing.

00:38:45
Speaker 8: That's highly suspect.

00:38:46
Speaker 3: Do you think he was just kidding? No, I'm torn because, on one hand.

00:38:50
Speaker 7: If you're in his shoes, you know to be cautious if you're actually gambling. But at the same time, why would you joke about that the one thing that could really get you in trouble, you know, your career.

00:39:00
Speaker 3: Why would you make a joke.

00:39:02
Speaker 5: I think that he believed he had like a privacy setting to where that would not go public, and that's why he did it. But he didn't know that it went public where everybody could see a kid.

00:39:11
Speaker 4: If you're gonna lie and I'm not advocating line, but if you're gonna lie, that was a bad lie saying your joke. Just be like my friend and I were eating. That was the game that was on there.

00:39:23
Speaker 8: You go see, you're much better liar than he is.

00:39:27
Speaker 9: Better.

00:39:27
Speaker 3: What would you say?

00:39:29
Speaker 7: My friend tried to gamble and he set his money down. I said, I cannot accept this, so I sent it back on Venmo because he ran away. I was trying not to gamble. He was trying so hard to gamble with me. I had to venmo him. Why did that happen? Ten times?

00:39:42
Speaker 8: Sir?

00:39:43
Speaker 7: It's on your Veno relentless. I wanted nothing to do with it. I wanted nothing to do with it, so I had to get it out of my account.

00:39:49
Speaker 3: That's right. Who's up next?

00:39:51
Speaker 12: Kevin is next?

00:39:52
Speaker 3: Kevin? Go ahead, Kevin matt Man.

00:39:56
Speaker 13: I said, that's very concerning about that probe. And I think we all know the number one well they're going to hone in on is probably Nickel State.

00:40:02
Speaker 10: So if I'm down there, I'm getting nervous.

00:40:04
Speaker 3: Uh yeah, you gotta watch out for nick.

00:40:09
Speaker 13: Second of all, I give you guys this just to square a neighborly dispute I'm having. Okay, I've got to.

00:40:14
Speaker 10: I always mow every.

00:40:15
Speaker 13: Seven days on the nose. Okay, my neighbors seldomly mow. We share a very small patch of grass, probably forty yards long, ten yards wide. It's tiny. And whenever I mow, I just mow their side because I what is it to me? I don't even care. Multiple times now they have mowed in a very passive, aggressive fashion, their side, not mine. Am I right in thinking they're jerks?

00:40:40
Speaker 3: Yes?

00:40:41
Speaker 4: Yes, I mean anybody who would not accept I appreciate the call of free mo is in and of themselves a little bit of a jerk unless you're just a bad mower. And I don't even know how you can be a bad mower, but unless you're just a bad more. If somebody want immist say this again, unless I have a fence, If you want to mow my grass, have at it.

00:41:01
Speaker 3: I'm totally fine with you.

00:41:03
Speaker 5: Know, you can get back at them, like, just cut your side the normal height and then drop that thing all the way down to the lowest setting and just skin it on his side all the way down.

00:41:13
Speaker 3: To the dirt.

00:41:13
Speaker 8: That'll be the last time that'll happen.

00:41:15
Speaker 3: To you. Okay, I'm the opposite. Don't on my yard.

00:41:20
Speaker 7: Why don't you want people to your for I just put weed killer down yesterday. I want somebody that I need to sit for a while before you go and just mow it. I gotta redo it again, or I like to keep mine a little taller. What if you mow it shorter? Yeah, what's your preference?

00:41:32
Speaker 3: I just feel free. My goal is to not get ticks.

00:41:37
Speaker 4: So if you will, if you will, just you just do what you just set it on, whatever setting is right.

00:41:46
Speaker 3: I'm totally fine with that. Well.

00:41:48
Speaker 4: I want to thank everybody for coming out here to the State Fair. Everybody give yourselves a round of a pause. There's no better fan base than Kentucky. Let me give you a little scheduling for next week. Ks R Golf Scramble is on Monday, so we will all be out there on Monday.

00:42:05
Speaker 3: Ryan, We'll be back next week.

00:42:07
Speaker 4: We open the restaurant a week from Tuesday to the general public, and then we are fifteen days away from kickoff of the Kentucky football season. Kentucky and Toledo fifteen days from now, Drew, thank you very much. Shannon Billy is going to beat your tail. Yes, I think he left in Shane Billy and his passive Billy is flipping. Shannon are all right, We will see you later. This is being Kentucky Sports Radio.